There's a ignition cut off switch, neutral safety switch on
the automatic transmission. (NOT sure where it is on the
RT), but on my old Ford vans we had where I use to work,
it was a small white plastic piece mounted on the outside
of the transmission, and had the gear selector yolk passing
through it. When you were in park, or Neutral the cam inside
the unit moved to a point that would complete the ignition
circuit. We had 3-4 of these go out over the 10 years I worked
there. If putting it into Neutral made it work, then it worked in
'park' there after.. the safety switch might be A) Loosely
mounted and will most likely give more problems in the
future or B) Has bad connections on the 'Park' side, or was
contaminated with water, dirt, or mud and 'cleaned' off when
you moved from Park to Neutral and back.
I'd have the dealer check it out, or take a look see under
neath and you should be able to find it.
Sam '99 RT x 2
----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Yates <yatesrt@yahoo.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 9:15 PM
Subject: DML: Neutral safety switch???
>
> When I left work tonight and tried to start my truck,
> the sonnabitch wouldn't start. So I went through the
> attempt to jump it, I checked the valet switch on the
> alarm, the kill switch, then I pulled the fuses to
> completely reset the alarm, that didn't do squat. So I
> called my buddy/"mechanical advisor"/stereo/alarm
> installer, and we went through a bunch of crap to get
> it started, finally he told me to throw it in neutral
> and try it, WHAMMO, it started. He told me that it was
> the "neutral safety switch" (not sure on the
> terminology) . And when I started it in neutral, that
> should have kicked this switch back in place which it
> seemed to, then I tried to start it in park, and it
> did. Anyhoo, SHould I have this looked into at the
> service department, or see if it happens again? he was
> pretty sure that it won't happen again, but who knows.
> I'm just damn glad I know how to get it started now,
> cause damn I was REAL pissed ;-]
>
> Later
> Jack Yates
> '99 Black CC R/T
> http://www.smokindakota.com/rt
>
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